Ofer Yizhar

Affiliations

Department of Brain Sciences, Weizmann Institute of Science, Rehovot, Israel. ofer.yizhar@weizmann.ac.il.
Department of Molecular Neuroscience, Weizmann Institute of Science, Rehovot, Israel. ofer.yizhar@weizmann.ac.il.

ORCID: http://orcid.org/0000-0003-4228-1448

Publications (36)

Hearing temperatures: employing machine learning for elucidating the cross-modal perception of thermal properties through audition.

Frontiers in psychology

Avec: Mohr Wenger , Amber Maimon , Or Yizhar , Adi Snir , Yonatan Sasson , Amir Amedi

A bistable inhibitory optoGPCR for multiplexed optogenetic control of neural circuits.

Nature methods

Avec: Jonas Wietek , Adrianna Nozownik , Mauro Pulin , Inbar Saraf-Sinik , Noa Matosevich , Raajaram Gowrishankar , Asaf Gat , Daniela Malan , Bobbie J Brown , Julien Dine , Bibi Nusreen Imambocus , Rivka Levy , Kathrin Sauter , Anna Litvin , Noa Regev , Suraj Subramaniam , Khalid Abrera , Dustin Summarli , Eva Madeline Goren , Gili Mizrachi , Eyal Bitton , Asaf Benjamin , Bryan A Copits , Philipp Sasse , Benjamin R Rost , Dietmar Schmitz , Michael R Bruchas , Peter Soba , Meital Oren-Suissa , Yuval Nir , J Simon Wiegert , Ofer Yizhar

Co-coding of head and whisker movements by both VPM and POm thalamic neurons.

Nature communications

Avec: Tess Baker Oram , Alon Tenzer , Inbar Saraf-Sinik , Ofer Yizhar , Ehud Ahissar

Dynamics of social representation in the mouse prefrontal cortex.

Nature neuroscience

Avec: Dana Rubi Levy , Tal Tamir , Maya Kaufman , Ana Parabucki , Aharon Weissbrod , Elad Schneidman , Ofer Yizhar

Human genetics and neuropathology suggest a link between miR-218 and amyotrophic lateral sclerosis pathophysiology.

Science translational medicine

Avec: Irit Reichenstein , Chen Eitan , Sandra Diaz-Garcia , Guy Haim , Iddo Magen , Aviad Siany , Mariah L Hoye , Natali Rivkin , Tsviya Olender , Beata Toth , Revital Ravid , Amitai D Mandelbaum , Eran Yanowski , Jing Liang , Jeffrey K Rymer , Rivka Levy , Gilad Beck , Elena Ainbinder , Sali M K Farhan , Kimberly A Lennox , Nicole M Bode , Mark A Behlke , Thomas Möller , Smita Saxena , Cristiane A M Moreno , Giancarlo Costaguta , Kristel R van Eijk , Hemali Phatnani , Ammar Al-Chalabi , A Nazli Başak , Leonard H van den Berg , Orla Hardiman , John E Landers , Jesus S Mora , Karen E Morrison , Pamela J Shaw , Jan H Veldink , Samuel L Pfaff , Ofer Yizhar , Christina Gross , Robert H Brown , John M Ravits , Matthew B Harms , Timothy M Miller , Eran Hornstein

Optogenetic strategies for high-efficiency all-optical interrogation using blue-light-sensitive opsins.

eLife

Avec: Angelo Forli , Matteo Pisoni , Yoav Printz , Ofer Yizhar , Tommaso Fellin

Applying a novel visual-to-touch sensory substitution for studying tactile reference frames.

Scientific reports

Avec: Or Yizhar , Galit Buchs , Benedetta Heimler , Doron Friedman , Amir Amedi

Efficient optogenetic silencing of neurotransmitter release with a mosquito rhodopsin.

Neuron

Avec: Mathias Mahn , Inbar Saraf-Sinik , Pritish Patil , Mauro Pulin , Eyal Bitton , Nikolaos Karalis , Felicitas Bruentgens , Shaked Palgi , Asaf Gat , Julien Dine , Jonas Wietek , Ido Davidi , Rivka Levy , Anna Litvin , Fangmin Zhou , Kathrin Sauter , Peter Soba , Dietmar Schmitz , Andreas Lüthi , Benjamin R Rost , J Simon Wiegert , Ofer Yizhar

Loss of action-related function and connectivity in the blind extrastriate body area.

Frontiers in neuroscience

Avec: Or Yizhar , Zohar Tal , Amir Amedi

Shape detection beyond the visual field using a visual-to-auditory sensory augmentation device.

Frontiers in human neuroscience

Avec: Shira Shvadron , Adi Snir , Amber Maimon , Or Yizhar , Sapir Harel , Keinan Poradosu , Amir Amedi

Associative and plastic thalamic signaling to the lateral amygdala controls fear behavior.

Nature neuroscience

Avec: Boglárka Barsy , Kinga Kocsis , Aletta Magyar , Ákos Babiczky , Mónika Szabó , Judit M Veres , Dániel Hillier , István Ulbert , Ofer Yizhar , Ferenc Mátyás

Wireless Optogenetic Stimulation of Oxytocin Neurons in a Semi-natural Setup Dynamically Elevates Both Pro-social and Agonistic Behaviors.

Neuron

Avec: Sergey Anpilov , Yair Shemesh , Noa Eren , Hala Harony-Nicolas , Asaf Benjamin , Julien Dine , Vinícius E M Oliveira , Oren Forkosh , Stoyo Karamihalev , Rosa-Eva Hüttl , Noa Feldman , Ryan Berger , Avi Dagan , Gal Chen , Inga D Neumann , Shlomo Wagner , Ofer Yizhar , Alon Chen

In situ electrochemical generation of nitric oxide for neuronal modulation.

Nature nanotechnology

Avec: Jimin Park , Kyoungsuk Jin , Atharva Sahasrabudhe , Po-Han Chiang , Joseph H Maalouf , Florian Koehler , Dekel Rosenfeld , Siyuan Rao , Tomo Tanaka , Tural Khudiyev , Zachary J Schiffer , Yoel Fink , Ofer Yizhar , Karthish Manthiram , Polina Anikeeva

Designer Drugs for Designer Receptors: Unlocking the Translational Potential of Chemogenetics.

Trends in pharmacological sciences

Avec: Ofer Yizhar , J Simon Wiegert

A case study in phenomenology of visual experience with retinal prosthesis versus visual-to-auditory sensory substitution.

Neuropsychologia

Avec: Amber Maimon , Or Yizhar , Galit Buchs , Benedetta Heimler , Amir Amedi

Localized chemogenetic silencing of inhibitory neurons: a novel mouse model of focal cortical epileptic activity.

Cerebral cortex (New York, N.Y. : 1991)

Avec: Adi Miriam Goldenberg , Sarah Schmidt , Rea Mitelman , Dana Rubi Levy , Matthias Prigge , Yonatan Katz , Ofer Yizhar , Heinz Beck , Ilan Lampl

Neural basis for fasting activation of the hypothalamic-pituitary-adrenal axis.

Nature

Avec: Amelia M Douglass , Jon M Resch , Joseph C Madara , Hakan Kucukdereli , Ofer Yizhar , Abhinav Grama , Masahito Yamagata , Zongfang Yang , Bradford B Lowell

A non-canonical striatopallidal "Go" pathway that supports motor control.

Research square

Avec: Marie A Labouesse , Arturo Torres-Herraez , Muhammad O Chohan , Joseph Villarin , Julia Greenwald , Xiaoxiao Sun , Mysarah Zahran , Alice Tang , Sherry Lam , Jeremy Veenstra-VanderWeele , Clay Lacefield , Jordi Bonaventura , Michael Michaelides , C Savio Chan , Ofer Yizhar , Christoph Kellendonk

Anatomically and functionally distinct thalamocortical inputs to primary and secondary mouse whisker somatosensory cortices.

Nature communications

Avec: Sami El-Boustani , B Semihcan Sermet , Georgios Foustoukos , Tess B Oram , Ofer Yizhar , Carl C H Petersen

Somatostatin interneurons in the prefrontal cortex control affective state discrimination in mice.

Nature neuroscience

Avec: Diego Scheggia , Francesca Managò , Federica Maltese , Stefania Bruni , Marco Nigro , Daniel Dautan , Patrick Latuske , Gabriella Contarini , Marta Gomez-Gonzalo , Linda Maria Requie , Valentina Ferretti , Giulia Castellani , Daniele Mauro , Alessandra Bonavia , Giorgio Carmignoto , Ofer Yizhar , Francesco Papaleo

Author Correction: Dynamics of social representation in the mouse prefrontal cortex.

Nature neuroscience

Avec: Dana Rubi Levy , Tal Tamir , Maya Kaufman , Ana Parabucki , Aharon Weissbrod , Elad Schneidman , Ofer Yizhar

Rhodopsin-bestrophin fusion proteins from unicellular algae form gigantic pentameric ion channels.

Nature structural & molecular biology

Avec: Andrey Rozenberg , Igor Kaczmarczyk , Donna Matzov , Johannes Vierock , Takashi Nagata , Masahiro Sugiura , Kota Katayama , Yuma Kawasaki , Masae Konno , Yujiro Nagasaka , Mako Aoyama , Ishita Das , Efrat Pahima , Jonathan Church , Suliman Adam , Veniamin A Borin , Ariel Chazan , Sandra Augustin , Jonas Wietek , Julien Dine , Yoav Peleg , Akira Kawanabe , Yuichiro Fujiwara , Ofer Yizhar , Mordechai Sheves , Igor Schapiro , Yuji Furutani , Hideki Kandori , Keiichi Inoue , Peter Hegemann , Oded Béjà , Moran Shalev-Benami

Optogenetics at the presynapse.

Nature neuroscience

Avec: Benjamin R Rost , Jonas Wietek , Ofer Yizhar , Dietmar Schmitz

Molecular Optimization of Rhodopsin-Based Tools for Neuroscience Applications.

Methods in molecular biology (Clifton, N.J.)

Avec: Lief E Fenno , Rivka Levy , Ofer Yizhar

Gyrification in relation to cortical thickness in the congenitally blind.

Frontiers in neuroscience

Avec: Isabel Arend , Kenneth Yuen , Or Yizhar , Daniel-Robert Chebat , Amir Amedi

Determinants of functional synaptic connectivity among amygdala-projecting prefrontal cortical neurons in male mice.

Nature communications

Avec: Yoav Printz , Pritish Patil , Mathias Mahn , Asaf Benjamin , Anna Litvin , Rivka Levy , Max Bringmann , Ofer Yizhar

Studying dominance and aggression requires ethologically relevant paradigms.

Current opinion in neurobiology

Avec: Yair Shemesh , Asaf Benjamin , Keren Shoshani-Haye , Ofer Yizhar , Alon Chen

Locus coeruleus norepinephrine activity mediates sensory-evoked awakenings from sleep.

Science advances

Avec: Hanna Hayat , Noa Regev , Noa Matosevich , Anna Sales , Elena Paredes-Rodriguez , Aaron J Krom , Lottem Bergman , Yong Li , Marina Lavigne , Eric J Kremer , Ofer Yizhar , Anthony E Pickering , Yuval Nir

In Vivo Optophysiology Reveals Lateral Inhibition among Layer 1 Interneurons.

Neuron

Avec: Pritish Patil , Ofer Yizhar

Pathway-, layer- and cell-type-specific thalamic input to mouse barrel cortex.

eLife

Avec: B Semihcan Sermet , Pavel Truschow , Michael Feyerabend , Johannes M Mayrhofer , Tess B Oram , Ofer Yizhar , Jochen F Staiger , Carl Ch Petersen

Body Ownership of Anatomically Implausible Hands in Virtual Reality.

Frontiers in human neuroscience

Avec: Or Yizhar , Jonathan Giron , Mohr Wenger , Debbie Chetrit , Gilad Ostrin , Doron Friedman , Amir Amedi

The social dilemma: prefrontal control of mammalian sociability.

Current opinion in neurobiology

Avec: Ofer Yizhar , Dana R Levy

A non-canonical striatopallidal Go pathway that supports motor control.

Nature communications

Avec: Marie A Labouesse , Arturo Torres-Herraez , Muhammad O Chohan , Joseph M Villarin , Julia Greenwald , Xiaoxiao Sun , Mysarah Zahran , Alice Tang , Sherry Lam , Jeremy Veenstra-VanderWeele , Clay O Lacefield , Jordi Bonaventura , Michael Michaelides , C Savio Chan , Ofer Yizhar , Christoph Kellendonk

Optogenetics for light control of biological systems.

Nature reviews. Methods primers

Avec: Valentina Emiliani , Emilia Entcheva , Rainer Hedrich , Peter Hegemann , Kai R Konrad , Christian Lüscher , Mathias Mahn , Zhuo-Hua Pan , Ruth R Sims , Johannes Vierock , Ofer Yizhar

Exercise increases information content and affects long-term stability of hippocampal place codes.

Cell reports

Avec: Yoav Rechavi , Alon Rubin , Ofer Yizhar , Yaniv Ziv

A bistable inhibitory OptoGPCR for multiplexed optogenetic control of neural circuits.

bioRxiv : the preprint server for biology

Avec: Jonas Wietek , Adrianna Nozownik , Mauro Pulin , Inbar Saraf-Sinik , Noa Matosevich , Daniela Malan , Bobbie J Brown , Julien Dine , Rivka Levy , Anna Litvin , Noa Regev , Suraj Subramaniam , Eyal Bitton , Asaf Benjamin , Bryan A Copits , Philipp Sasse , Benjamin R Rost , Dietmar Schmitz , Peter Soba , Yuval Nir , J Simon Wiegert , Ofer Yizhar

Réseau de co-auteurs

Or Yizhar 7 collaborations

Amir Amedi 7 collaborations

Rivka Levy 6 collaborations

Jonas Wietek 5 collaborations

Julien Dine 5 collaborations

Asaf Benjamin 5 collaborations

Inbar Saraf-Sinik 4 collaborations

Anna Litvin 4 collaborations

Benjamin R Rost 4 collaborations

Dietmar Schmitz 4 collaborations

J Simon Wiegert 4 collaborations

Amber Maimon 3 collaborations

Mauro Pulin 3 collaborations

Noa Matosevich 3 collaborations

Noa Regev 3 collaborations

Eyal Bitton 3 collaborations

Peter Soba 3 collaborations

Yuval Nir 3 collaborations

Dana Rubi Levy 3 collaborations

Mathias Mahn 3 collaborations

Pritish Patil 3 collaborations

Mohr Wenger 2 collaborations

Adi Snir 2 collaborations

Adrianna Nozownik 2 collaborations

Asaf Gat 2 collaborations

Daniela Malan 2 collaborations

Bobbie J Brown 2 collaborations

Kathrin Sauter 2 collaborations

Suraj Subramaniam 2 collaborations

Bryan A Copits 2 collaborations

Philipp Sasse 2 collaborations

Tal Tamir 2 collaborations

Maya Kaufman 2 collaborations

Ana Parabucki 2 collaborations

Aharon Weissbrod 2 collaborations

Elad Schneidman 2 collaborations

Yoav Printz 2 collaborations

Galit Buchs 2 collaborations

Benedetta Heimler 2 collaborations

Doron Friedman 2 collaborations

Yair Shemesh 2 collaborations

Alon Chen 2 collaborations

Marie A Labouesse 2 collaborations

Arturo Torres-Herraez 2 collaborations

Muhammad O Chohan 2 collaborations

Julia Greenwald 2 collaborations

Xiaoxiao Sun 2 collaborations

Mysarah Zahran 2 collaborations

Alice Tang 2 collaborations

Sherry Lam 2 collaborations

Jeremy Veenstra-VanderWeele 2 collaborations

Jordi Bonaventura 2 collaborations

Michael Michaelides 2 collaborations

C Savio Chan 2 collaborations

Christoph Kellendonk 2 collaborations

B Semihcan Sermet 2 collaborations

Tess B Oram 2 collaborations

Johannes Vierock 2 collaborations

Peter Hegemann 2 collaborations

Yonatan Sasson 1 collaboration

Raajaram Gowrishankar 1 collaboration

Bibi Nusreen Imambocus 1 collaboration

Khalid Abrera 1 collaboration

Dustin Summarli 1 collaboration

Eva Madeline Goren 1 collaboration

Gili Mizrachi 1 collaboration

Michael R Bruchas 1 collaboration

Meital Oren-Suissa 1 collaboration

Tess Baker Oram 1 collaboration

Alon Tenzer 1 collaboration

Ehud Ahissar 1 collaboration

Irit Reichenstein 1 collaboration

Chen Eitan 1 collaboration

Sandra Diaz-Garcia 1 collaboration

Guy Haim 1 collaboration

Iddo Magen 1 collaboration

Aviad Siany 1 collaboration

Mariah L Hoye 1 collaboration

Natali Rivkin 1 collaboration

Tsviya Olender 1 collaboration

Beata Toth 1 collaboration

Revital Ravid 1 collaboration

Amitai D Mandelbaum 1 collaboration

Eran Yanowski 1 collaboration

Jing Liang 1 collaboration

Jeffrey K Rymer 1 collaboration

Gilad Beck 1 collaboration

Elena Ainbinder 1 collaboration

Sali M K Farhan 1 collaboration

Kimberly A Lennox 1 collaboration

Nicole M Bode 1 collaboration

Mark A Behlke 1 collaboration

Thomas Möller 1 collaboration

Smita Saxena 1 collaboration

Cristiane A M Moreno 1 collaboration

Giancarlo Costaguta 1 collaboration

Kristel R van Eijk 1 collaboration

Hemali Phatnani 1 collaboration

Ammar Al-Chalabi 1 collaboration

A Nazli Başak 1 collaboration

Leonard H van den Berg 1 collaboration

Orla Hardiman 1 collaboration

John E Landers 1 collaboration

Jesus S Mora 1 collaboration

Karen E Morrison 1 collaboration

Pamela J Shaw 1 collaboration

Jan H Veldink 1 collaboration

Samuel L Pfaff 1 collaboration

Christina Gross 1 collaboration

Robert H Brown 1 collaboration

John M Ravits 1 collaboration

Matthew B Harms 1 collaboration

Timothy M Miller 1 collaboration

Eran Hornstein 1 collaboration

Angelo Forli 1 collaboration

Matteo Pisoni 1 collaboration

Tommaso Fellin 1 collaboration

Nikolaos Karalis 1 collaboration

Felicitas Bruentgens 1 collaboration

Shaked Palgi 1 collaboration

Ido Davidi 1 collaboration

Fangmin Zhou 1 collaboration

Andreas Lüthi 1 collaboration

Zohar Tal 1 collaboration

Shira Shvadron 1 collaboration

Sapir Harel 1 collaboration

Keinan Poradosu 1 collaboration

Boglárka Barsy 1 collaboration

Kinga Kocsis 1 collaboration

Aletta Magyar 1 collaboration

Ákos Babiczky 1 collaboration

Mónika Szabó 1 collaboration

Judit M Veres 1 collaboration

Dániel Hillier 1 collaboration

István Ulbert 1 collaboration

Ferenc Mátyás 1 collaboration

Sergey Anpilov 1 collaboration

Noa Eren 1 collaboration

Hala Harony-Nicolas 1 collaboration

Vinícius E M Oliveira 1 collaboration

Oren Forkosh 1 collaboration

Stoyo Karamihalev 1 collaboration

Rosa-Eva Hüttl 1 collaboration

Noa Feldman 1 collaboration

Ryan Berger 1 collaboration

Avi Dagan 1 collaboration

Gal Chen 1 collaboration

Inga D Neumann 1 collaboration

Shlomo Wagner 1 collaboration

Jimin Park 1 collaboration

Kyoungsuk Jin 1 collaboration

Atharva Sahasrabudhe 1 collaboration

Po-Han Chiang 1 collaboration

Joseph H Maalouf 1 collaboration

Florian Koehler 1 collaboration

Dekel Rosenfeld 1 collaboration

Siyuan Rao 1 collaboration

Tomo Tanaka 1 collaboration

Tural Khudiyev 1 collaboration

Zachary J Schiffer 1 collaboration

Yoel Fink 1 collaboration

Karthish Manthiram 1 collaboration

Polina Anikeeva 1 collaboration

Adi Miriam Goldenberg 1 collaboration

Sarah Schmidt 1 collaboration

Rea Mitelman 1 collaboration

Matthias Prigge 1 collaboration

Yonatan Katz 1 collaboration

Heinz Beck 1 collaboration

Ilan Lampl 1 collaboration

Amelia M Douglass 1 collaboration

Jon M Resch 1 collaboration

Joseph C Madara 1 collaboration

Hakan Kucukdereli 1 collaboration

Abhinav Grama 1 collaboration

Masahito Yamagata 1 collaboration

Zongfang Yang 1 collaboration

Bradford B Lowell 1 collaboration

Joseph Villarin 1 collaboration

Clay Lacefield 1 collaboration

Sami El-Boustani 1 collaboration

Georgios Foustoukos 1 collaboration

Carl C H Petersen 1 collaboration

Diego Scheggia 1 collaboration

Francesca Managò 1 collaboration

Federica Maltese 1 collaboration

Stefania Bruni 1 collaboration

Marco Nigro 1 collaboration

Daniel Dautan 1 collaboration

Patrick Latuske 1 collaboration

Gabriella Contarini 1 collaboration

Marta Gomez-Gonzalo 1 collaboration

Linda Maria Requie 1 collaboration

Valentina Ferretti 1 collaboration

Giulia Castellani 1 collaboration

Daniele Mauro 1 collaboration

Alessandra Bonavia 1 collaboration

Giorgio Carmignoto 1 collaboration

Francesco Papaleo 1 collaboration

Andrey Rozenberg 1 collaboration

Igor Kaczmarczyk 1 collaboration

Donna Matzov 1 collaboration

Takashi Nagata 1 collaboration

Masahiro Sugiura 1 collaboration

Kota Katayama 1 collaboration

Yuma Kawasaki 1 collaboration

Masae Konno 1 collaboration

Yujiro Nagasaka 1 collaboration

Mako Aoyama 1 collaboration

Ishita Das 1 collaboration

Efrat Pahima 1 collaboration

Jonathan Church 1 collaboration

Suliman Adam 1 collaboration

Veniamin A Borin 1 collaboration

Ariel Chazan 1 collaboration

Sandra Augustin 1 collaboration

Yoav Peleg 1 collaboration

Akira Kawanabe 1 collaboration

Yuichiro Fujiwara 1 collaboration

Mordechai Sheves 1 collaboration

Igor Schapiro 1 collaboration

Yuji Furutani 1 collaboration

Hideki Kandori 1 collaboration

Keiichi Inoue 1 collaboration

Oded Béjà 1 collaboration

Moran Shalev-Benami 1 collaboration

Lief E Fenno 1 collaboration

Isabel Arend 1 collaboration

Kenneth Yuen 1 collaboration

Daniel-Robert Chebat 1 collaboration

Max Bringmann 1 collaboration

Keren Shoshani-Haye 1 collaboration

Hanna Hayat 1 collaboration

Anna Sales 1 collaboration

Elena Paredes-Rodriguez 1 collaboration

Aaron J Krom 1 collaboration

Lottem Bergman 1 collaboration

Yong Li 1 collaboration

Marina Lavigne 1 collaboration

Eric J Kremer 1 collaboration

Anthony E Pickering 1 collaboration

Pavel Truschow 1 collaboration

Michael Feyerabend 1 collaboration

Johannes M Mayrhofer 1 collaboration

Jochen F Staiger 1 collaboration

Carl Ch Petersen 1 collaboration

Jonathan Giron 1 collaboration

Debbie Chetrit 1 collaboration

Gilad Ostrin 1 collaboration

Dana R Levy 1 collaboration

Joseph M Villarin 1 collaboration

Clay O Lacefield 1 collaboration

Valentina Emiliani 1 collaboration

Emilia Entcheva 1 collaboration

Rainer Hedrich 1 collaboration

Kai R Konrad 1 collaboration

Christian Lüscher 1 collaboration

Zhuo-Hua Pan 1 collaboration

Ruth R Sims 1 collaboration

Yoav Rechavi 1 collaboration

Alon Rubin 1 collaboration

Yaniv Ziv 1 collaboration